Our institution uses Geoserver on a daily basis for serving map layers. We are also using Geoserver/Geonode/Wordpress in development aid projects in different countries(http://mapa.meioambiente.tl/). The institution I work at is very happy with Geoserver.
This time, rather than asking a question I would like to present a small tool which works “on top” of geoserver.
Presenting information online using wordpress poses problems when you want to dynamically retrieve a list of layers. I recently made a php-script which easily lends itself to iframe-use from within WordPress. It makes an overview map using openlayers, and it lists the map layers with thumbnail maps and key layer information from Geoserver. However - I guess that:
· Better solutions are available elsewhere
· The code I wrote can be more efficient
· It can easily be ported to other platforms
I wrote a post about this on my blog (www.mindland.com). The code is available on github (https://github.com/ragnvald/wms_tools/tree/master/php_scripts/wms_info). Comments and further developments/suggestions are most welcome.
Cheers!
Ragnvald